Hebrews 1

Which worship songs are based on Hebrews 1?

  1. Child Like This — Jon Thurlow (2010) Hebrews 1:1-2

    The opening closely adapts Hebrews' contrast between God's varied communication in earlier times and His present revelation through the Son.

  2. Phos Hilaron (Hail Gladdening Light) — David Crowder Band (2009) Hebrews 1:3

    The opening identifies Jesus as the light proceeding from the Father's glory, closely echoing Hebrews' description of the Son as the radiance of God's glory. The connection rests on this specific relationship between the Son, divine light, and the Father's glory.

  3. Fairest Lord Jesus — Don Moen (2014) Hebrews 1:3-4

    The hymn’s portrayal of Jesus’ surpassing brightness, specifically contrasted with the angels, echoes Hebrews’ description of the Son as the radiance of God’s glory and superior to angels.

  4. 12 — Neal Morse (2007) Hebrews 1:3

    The portrayal of Christ as solar radiance revealing the Father adapts Hebrews' description of the Son as the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being.

  5. Worthy Of Affection — Shane & Shane (2010) Hebrews 1:3

    The chorus closely adapts Hebrews' description of the Son as the radiance of God's glory and the sustainer of all things through his powerful word. The pairing of these two claims makes this passage unmistakable.

  6. Across the Lands — Keith & Kristyn Getty (2013) Hebrews 1:3

    The song specifically attributes the continued existence of creation to Christ's powerful speech, closely adapting Hebrews' description of the Son sustaining everything.

  7. fit the role — gio. & Dell Mac (2024) Hebrews 1:3

    The movement from Christ's sacrificial death to his exalted reign, seated in heavenly majesty, strongly echoes Hebrews' description of the Son completing purification and sitting at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

  8. You — Hillsong UNITED (2007) Hebrews 1:3

    The bridge's description of God sustaining the entire universe closely parallels Hebrews' description of the Son upholding the universe. The connection concerns ongoing cosmic sustenance, rather than merely divine power or protection.

  9. The Chorus Of The Saved — Emu Music (2014) Hebrews 1:3

    The opening verse closely follows Hebrews’ description of the Son as the radiance of God’s glory who sustains everything through his powerful word.

  10. A Source With No Name — ApologetiX (2015) Hebrews 1:4-8

    The opening summarizes Hebrews’ comparisons establishing Christ’s superiority to angels, Moses, and earthly priests. Its affirmation of Christ’s divinity particularly corresponds to the address to the Son in Hebrews 1:8.

  11. Jehovah — ApologetiX (2010) Hebrews 1:5

    The song explicitly names this verse to challenge the identification of Jesus with Michael the archangel. The passage distinguishes the Son from angels by asking whether God ever addressed an angel as his Son.

  12. Uma Coisa - Ao Vivo — MORADA (2017) Hebrews 1:7

    The description of God making angels into winds and ministers into fire closely reproduces Hebrews 1:7, which cites Psalm 104:4. The song then applies the minister-and-fire imagery to the gathered worshippers.

  13. Só Tu És Santo / Uma Coisa / Deixa Queimar / Quando Ele Vem - Ao Vivo — MORADA (2021) Hebrews 1:7

    The description of God appointing his angels as winds and his ministers as fire reproduces the language Hebrews uses about angels, itself drawn from Psalm 104:4.

Hebrews 1 (King James Version)

1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?